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Don't start now · Dua Lipa

EXERCISE 12 OF 38
Groove E
60 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 4
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART N
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBGUKN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Don't start now on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-68, ride through bars 69-73, silence through bars 74-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-92.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13, and 16 more places -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Don't start now -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 32, 40 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B, K -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 21-49 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-61 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-73 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Don't start now?

124 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Don't start now hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Don't start now?

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 32, 40 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED